Day 1: Elementary Sessions
Day 1: Elementary Sessions
Breakout Session 1
9:45 - 10:45 am
Presenter
Dr. Mostafa Hassanalian
Grade Band: K-5
Location: Room # 115
Today, there is a growing need for flying drones with diverse capabilities for both civilian and military applications. There is also a significant interest in the development of novel drones, which can autonomously fly in different environments and locations and can perform various missions. During this session, we will look at drone development, purpose, and implications.
Presenter
Mollie Hackett
Grade Band: K-5
Location: Room # 117
Both students and teachers need support in making the transition to inquiry-based learning; The DBQ Project’s six-step method provides the scaffolding to help both the learner and the teacher be successful in using an inquiry-based approach to learning. In this interactive session, participants are immersed in an inquiry-based lesson. Starting with a compelling question and an engaging hook, participants go through the inquiry process of interrogating evidence, formulating conclusions, and marshaling evidence to support those conclusions.
Attendees will leave the session with a greater understanding of the DBQ Project’s method as well as how to navigate the DBQ Project’s online platform.
Presenter
Alyssa Navarette
Grade Band: K-5
Location: Room # 118
Come discover the magic of teaching and learning with Nearpod, the tech platform that supports high levels of student engagement and inspires innovative instruction! Learn how you can package all your Social Studies resources into interactive lessons that facilitate student discussions and provide formative assessment data for teacher.
You will experience a live lesson that will introduce you to the standards-aligned lesson library, and you will leave with ideas for creating and editing your own standards- aligned lessons to launch with your students with Nearpod’s amazing interactive technology.
After this presentation, participants will be able to:
Log into and navigate the Nearpod homepage
Search for social studies lessons in the Nearpod library
Consider how to create and edit interactive lessons with Nearpod
Presenter
Dr. Wendi Miller-Tomlinson
Grade Band: K - 12
Location: Room # 133
We will explore how the intersection of social categories such as race, class, and gender may influence how we view events both in history and now. Are social categories helpful in thinking about our own place in history? What are ways in which categorization of individuals might either enhance or marginalize their role in history? We’ll do a few cool exercises to help us grapple with the concept of belong to multiples social categories and what it might mean.
Presenters
Dennis Daily
Angelica Valenzuela
Grade Band: K - 12
Location: Room # 135
In this presentation, a county records manager and a university archivist will discuss their collaboration with the Las Cruces Public Schools to create a repository of local, primary source documents for teachers of New Mexico history. The project, still in implementation stage, is intended to engage students with historical documents from their own communities that reflect major themes in New Mexico and U.S. history. The goal is to teach the concept of primary sources and historical relevancy using documents in which students see themselves and their communities reflected.
Discovering Newsela Content and Features
Presenter
Live Zoom with Kristen Rafferty
Grade Band: K - 12
Location: Library
Connect to the Newsela content most relevant to your subject area and students and learn how to leverage Newsela features to support student engagement and learning. Learn how to find and save relevant content on Newsela. Build an understanding of how Newsela can increase student engagement and motivation. Explore Newsela features to customize content for your classroom.
Breakout Session 2
11:00 - 12:00 pm
Presenter
Bryan McCuller
Grade Band: K-5
Location: Room # 135
My presentation will provide the educator participant with curricular ideas to address current social issues related to social justice for students in grades K-5. This session is literature-based, and participants will explore "society" through a cultural lens. Often in the area of social justice, topics are deemed too "adult" for young students, but the reality is that our students are heavily exposed to these issues today. Therefore, we should focus early on social justice, bullying, xenophobia, and respect for other cultures.
After this presentation, educator participants will be able to understand social justice issues and be able to introduce students to these topics and participants will be able to utilize literature to introduce students to the topics of immigration, holocaust, and bullying.
Presenter
Kathy Hiles
Grade Band: K-5
Location: Room # 217
Dozens of daily, easy-to-implement instructional strategies that require on-going active student engagement while providing support for all levels of learners, with an added focus on student-created mini-products and long-term projects for social studies content across elementary grades. Visuals. Samples. Picture-taking.
Presenter
Leah Pearson
Grade Band: K-5
Location: Room # 218
How do you use questions in your classroom? Are you the one asking, or are the students? How much time is provided to find the answers? After this presentation, participants will walk away with strategies and useful resources that can be implemented in their classroom to support inquiry-based learning.
Presenters
Julie Kauffman
Kelly Mahboub
Grade Band: 3-5
Location: Room # 132
This training will support the implementation of the new social studies standards through the use of cross-curricular high-impact and evidenced-based strategies designed to engage the 21st century learner at an elementary level (focus on grades 3-5). Participants will work collaboratively, using best teaching practices, to bring the social studies standards to life.
Use high-impact strategies to Integrate the new social studies standards into current guaranteed and viable curriculums.
Presenter
Josh Silver
Grade Band: K - 12
Location: Room # 133
This session will be interactive. Participants will become familiar with Virtual Reality equipment as well as several educational apps that support VR.
Presenter
Kimberly York
Grade Band: K - 12
Location: Room # 116
During this session, we will discuss the guiding principles you can use to engage students in conversations about race. You will walk away with strategies to help students see their differences as assets and embrace the unique features in cultures besides their own.